Following a tryst from a modern individual and a Denisovan, a child had been conceived, who left descendants, a number of whom became Tibetans

Yet Tibetans, whoever ancestors have resided in the plateau for at the least 30,000 years, are well-adapted towards the environment that is low-oxygen thanks in component to specific versions associated with genes EGLN1 and EPAS1, that are associated with sensing and adjusting to oxygen amounts. The anthropologist Cynthia Beall and colleagues showed that Tibetans can trace their ancestry to two previously distinct populations, related to modern Han Chinese and Sherpa in a paper published, the geneticist Anna Di Rienzo.
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